Category: Utilities
Avangrid Behind Political Campaign Against CT Utility Regulator
Connecticut utility United Illuminating, a subsidiary of Avangrid, is behind a political campaign targeting a draft decision by state regulators rejecting its requested rate hike. UI has mobilized its own...
Xcel-funded group urges Minnesota regulators to increase profits for Xcel
Minnesota Utility Investors, a shareholder advocacy group, joins Xcel in pushing for PUC to reconsider rate case decision
Gas industry dark money group’s influence seen in Ohio budget bill
Updated on July 4, 2023 after Governor Mike DeWine signed the budget and issued a partial veto of the All Ohio Future Fund that included funding for gas infrastructure. Parts...
FirstEnergy front group paid convicted lobbyist Matthew Borges’ firm to attack Cleveland Public Power
This post is part two of a two-part blog series. Part one reveals FirstEnergy’s secret role in funding Consumers Against Deceptive Fees, based on subpoenaed bank records. Part two looks...
FirstEnergy dark money payments included over $550,000 for ‘consumers’ group’s campaign against Cleveland Public Power
This post is part one of a two-part blog series. Part one reveals FirstEnergy’s secret role in funding Consumers Against Deceptive Fees, based on subpoenaed bank records. Part two looks...
DTE Energy shareholders reject transparency proposal
Efforts to force utilities to disclose political spending information continue at the Michigan Legislature and PSC
Xcel pushing measure that has raised gas bills in Minnesota, scrapped in other states
Xcel Energy is fighting the scheduled sunset of a Minnesota law that enables utilities to charge customers hundreds of millions of dollars for fossil gas infrastructure upgrades without standard regulatory...
Bank records reveal more secret payments to Larry Householder’s dark money group from the fossil fuel industry, other sectors
Bank records subpoenaed by the Cleveland City Council have revealed previously secret payments to convicted former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s dark money group Generation Now from donors in the...
AEP’s former CEO met with Larry Householder about plan to weaken Ohio’s term limits, according to prosecution witness
Nicholas Akins was still the CEO of AEP and Larry Householder was still the Speaker of the Ohio House when the two met and discussed a planned term limits ballot...
Feds reveal more secret pass-throughs for FirstEnergy money in Larry Householder racketeering case
New information made public by federal prosecutors in the racketeering case against ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder revealed that $400,000 secretly paid by FirstEnergy passed through two dark money groups,...